Background
Earl Ziemke was born on December 16, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the Marines during World World War World War II
Earl Ziemke was born on December 16, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the Marines during World World War World War II
After his discharge, he used the G.I. Bill to pursue higher education, and in 1951 he received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin.
After learning Japanese at Camp Elliot, California, Ziemke served in the Pacific. At the end of the war, Corporal Ziemke served at Tientsin, China. From 1951 until 1955, he worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, while for the period 1955-1967, he was an official historian for the United States Army’ General’ s Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington, District of Columbia In 1967, he went to the University of Georgia as a full professor and in 1977, he rose to the rank of research professor
He retired in 1993 as Research Professor Emeritus.
He occasionally served as an expert witness for the United States Justice Department on war crimes trials relating to the Holocaust. He was member in various historical societies, such as The World World War II Studies Association.
Ziemke died on October 15, 2007 and is interred at the Arlington National Cemetery.